Day 12 - Which clubs and teams are you a member of? Do you remember how you got involved with these clubs?
I'm mostly involved with the fencing club. I found out about it during a clubs and societies fair during orientation (strangely enough I remember spilling orange soda onto their display that day). I think the thoughts going through my mind were "this is awesome I totally want to do this!" and when it came to me needing a parental signature to sign up for membership it was "I hope mom and dad allow me to do this." (I had to be 18 before I could sign the form and I was 17 when I started.)
Why was I worried? Back in grade 8 some rock wall climbing company visited my school and we got the opportunity to do rock wall climbing as a gym/P.E. activity. Dad wouldn't let me participate in fear of me getting some sort of spinal injury (which was clearly labelled as a warning on the form). I wanted to do rock wall climbing but my dad somewhat scared me away from it. (People were provided with helmets and I haven't heard of anyone who got injured during the time the rock wall was there. Totally missed out on my early teenage fun time moments.) Nowadays I'm not afraid to try rock wall climbing and don't need parental permission to do so, but it doesn't interest me as much as back then.
I've been doing fencing for 5 years now and I still need to work on point control and when to get aggressive.
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